"The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background."

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Source : "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

Kehinde Wiley

#Fighting Quotes #Keys Quotes #Design Quotes

“We love the quality in a person, who can see themselves clearly and isn't ashamed of who they are.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.”
“I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.”
“Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.”

Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.”
“My whole world changed when Michael Jackson brought out the Bad album when I was about eight or nine. He took over my whole life and from then on I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I watched his videos for hours and learned how to dance like him. I would push back the chairs in the room and learn his dance moves. I even taught myself to moonwalk.”
“Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.”
“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”

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